Overview
- Points to the important lesson that the effect of ICT use is heterogeneous
- Compares patterns of digital divide in secondary education across 27 industrialized countries
- Provides policy recommendation based on empirical research with large-scale, representative and cross-national datasets
Part of the book series: Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making (HWBRPM)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book, the authors expertly examine the issue of adolescent well-being in the light of their exposure to and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) at school and home. The authors discuss a new form of inequality especially noticeable among youth, which is, digital inequality/divide, created through rapid developments in ICT. They analyze the relation between digital divide and educational inequality among youth, describe patterns of social exclusion from technology and education, and discuss related policies in industrialized nations to see how well-being issues can be addressed in this context. Comparing results based on nationally representative and internationally comparative datasets across 28 countries, the authors ask how and why the benefits accruing from ICT are substantially greater for some adolescents, but apparently smaller for others and how such differences may be reduced. They provide policy suggestions that are broadly based in the fields ofwell-being, secondary education, and technology use. This book is of interest to researchers and students of quality of life and well-being studies and a wide range of social science and education disciplines, including the sociology of education, media sociology, sociology of childhood and adolescence, communication studies, and science and technology education.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Simon Cheng is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, USA, where he has been teaching since 2004. His teaching and research interests are: the sociology of education, family, race/ethnicity, sexuality, and quantitative methods. Cheng’s publications in these areas include articles in AmericanJournal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Science Research, Sociological Methods & Research, and other journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Adolescent Well-Being and ICT Use
Book Subtitle: Social and Policy Implications
Authors: Josef Kuo-Hsun Ma, Simon Cheng
Series Title: Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04412-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04411-3Published: 21 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04414-4Published: 22 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04412-0Published: 20 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2522-5367
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5375
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 229
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 80 illustrations in colour
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Educational Policy and Politics, Culture and Technology